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P man 00T 11 1870 ffy z f minderen niwigsww' enonen vnnnrnnv e son, or SAME-,firmen new ment No'. 108,2;0, am@ omberii, 1870,

IMPROVEMENT inkomens oF, ensmsg-Rines. i lllefsehdule' referred 'te iheseLetrers Il Pateznt4 making of'ithe T0 au, .PW-90mm whom mes? IWWWM.s q'"ffhl'/ Cim-W5 vent such split or cirenu]ferentizilopeningof .the l'ring Be it known than I, GEORGE W. Kmennof Hopedale, of the count f of Worcester, of the Stnteof Mns# saehusettsLhve invented n new and useful Improre- 1 'ment in the Ring-Onrriersjor Support-ersrof Ring and' V Traveler SpinningFmmes; and do hereby declare the same to befnlly described in the following specifica-'i tion, and represented in the l:recoinpn'nying neming,l

of whieh- Figure l is a. topf viepjnnd iignre 2, n. transverse section of a. 1ing,"its elnst'iel -supportmg-nnnulus, and" ring-r'nil, l(he annnlns being provided with my improvement.'

,. 4The anunlus or rngsupporter is what; is termed n splinring-that-is, 2l-'ring Isnwedfor cut apart nt; one

porter. A

Thefrng-"supporier Gis formed with rebate, nl, to receive' and, encompass the 'hase or lower portion of l the ring A';zmd such supporter-Tnet only hasn fshonl degli, t rest on the mil, bute. shank, c, to enter the soc-kend of the said rail, n screw, e, "screwed into the rail, and against the shank of the split; ring'l or sup-l porter C, servng to conti-nei', le'supporter oir-the .hase f .the ring, ns well as to hold the supporter in.

its socket. My improvement qonsists in nrifnnging tl-ieeul: or

ing indicated by the arrow f.

l The lobjeei: of so 'arranging the split of the ring?. supporter C obliquely to,finstead' ;oi`.nb' right img glesv Wth'ghe circumference of such supporter is lo pre- Figure lrbeing n' side' elevation lofthe .ring-snp# Witnesses:

'from gnshering 4from the' traveler, 'while the latter may be in rapid movement, ilnm'cntsrorl bers, so-ns to obstruct the proper operations of suclrrnveler, ns sometimes *lakes place when the split 01" 4eue-of the ring-supporte'r is disposed rndinlly orl nu. right angles with the. circnmference'of the.supporter.`

- I herein make, no clzliui tofan annularspinningring supporter cui; radially, as described, and for use ,with

n spinning-traveler ring, andina, ringrail,:.in manner asl explained, and for the purpose oi' holding n.' rin g shank, 'and with onefor more cuts or kerfs' extending from the top'of the riugnfr right angles to its circumference,- anddown'wi'tllin'n short distance of the b0t tom orlower edgeV of the'shnnk, such a snpportenas I understand, having been the invention o i'v William TF. Draper, of Hopedalc, 'nforesnid.

A My improvement applies to the said ring-supporter of the said Draper, as each of the cuts of thel eontraetiiesuppoiier maybe disposed -obliqnely to theeireuinference, and so as to prerentthem-from'gath- 'eringflaments "or -gbers carried arennd by'nnd` de- 'tnehe'rjfom the traveler" When' inV operarios Whe-'t I elaiui' iny' invention is` Y Aj spinningringsnpporter, made as nescribed, with its peripheral"clll ol'fefutsarrnnged obliquely to the ,-eireum'tereneeef the. .supporter,V and relatively to the direetipnof iheniofion of the 'uns-elm', substantially in'mnnneramlji'or{tlleQ-'pnrpose as hereinhefore eX- plaincd. A 3 n p GEO. W. KNIGHT.

E.' D. BNCJROFT, l W. S. Brandnew. 

